On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickalla...@php.net>wrote:
> 2010/11/30 Kalle Sommer Nielsen <ka...@php.net>: > > Hi > > > > 2010/11/30 Patrick ALLAERT <patrickalla...@php.net>: > >> With this patch, something looks inconsistent to me: > >> Both properties and methods have a visibility > >> (public|protected|private) and a keyword: "var" (T_VAR) and "function" > >> (T_FUNCTION) respectively. > >> However "private var $foo;" generates a fatal error but "private > >> function foo(){}" not? > > > > The "var" keyword is an alias of the "public" keyword for BC with > > PHP4. So it would be illogically to declare a property both private > > and public at the same time ;-) > > Shouldn't we get rid of that kind of pre-PHP5 stuff _before_ > introducing the possible omission of T_FUNCTION? Why? This will break lots of code, does it improve anything while at it? Is 'var' hindering anything? Is it taking up a lot of code? If it is removed then that should be in trunk aka "6.0" the 2nd , and not in 5.x.